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Provision is made for the cooperation of the garden and the school 

 of botany by the requirement that the professor or professors in the 

 latter shall be the director of the garden or his chief assistant; or both, 

 or that they shall be appointed on nomination of or subject to tin.' 

 approval of the trustees of the garden. The instruction of garden 

 pupils is specifically indicated as a purpose of the institution, and 

 among the subjects that are mentioned as forming a part of the pur- 

 pose of its founder are horticulture, arboriculture, medicine and the 

 arts, so far as botany enters into them, and scientific investigations in 

 botany proper, vegetable physiology, the diseases of plants, the forms 

 of vegetable life, and of ani- 

 mal life injurious to vegeta- 

 tion, and experimental in- 

 vestigations in horticulture, 

 arboriculture, etc. ; but the 

 testator wisely adds: 'I 

 leave details of instruction 

 to those who may have to 

 administer the establish- 

 ment, and to shape the. par- 

 ticular course of things to 

 the condition of the times.' 



The intention and ob- 

 vious need of maintaining 

 the establishment as an 

 ornamental garden are evi- 

 dent in the many references 

 to it as a fundamental idea, 

 and Mr. Shaw very spe- 

 cifically states that he con- 

 siders it 'an important 

 feature to always keep up 

 the ornamental and flori- 



cultural character of the garden.' Direction is given that the yearly 

 net revenue from the endowment shall be applied 'first to the payment 

 of the salaries of the director, assistants, professors and gardeners, 

 and the payment of the wages of the employees and laborers, in 

 keeping up the grounds in good style and providing for the preser- 

 vation and increase of the plants and trees, and preserving the build- 

 ings and inclosures of the grounds, and secondly to the purchase of 

 plants, flowers, and trees, additions to the library, the enlargement 

 and improvement of the garden when necessary or advisable, and such 

 other expenditures as from time to time may lie found necessary' in 

 furtherance of the purposes of the testator. 



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